Program: Boredom
Program: Boredom
Location: Channel Islands National Park
Program: Pokemon GO
Program: Pokemon GO
Location: Channel Islands National Park
Program: None
Program: None
Location: Channel Islands National Park
Visual Art
Current Work
Current
Current Work
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A Species Between Worlds
2018 — Ongoing
A Species Between Worlds
An immersive photography experience examining what it means to be human in the Digital Age. Exhibited at Skylight Studios, New York (2022) and the London Design Biennale (2023).
Powerhouse Books — A Land Between Worlds
Early Work
At Their Home
At Their Home
100 black-and-white street photographs made in Marseille between 2011 and 2016. A city that has always been at the threshold of identities — foreign and native, ancient and present.
Powerhouse Books
Revealing Mexico
Revealing Mexico
Eight years crisscrossing all 31 Mexican states — its people, landscapes, architecture, and luminaries. Published to mark Mexico's bicentennial. Exhibited at Rockefeller Center and Rejas de Chapultepec, Mexico City.
Powerhouse Books — Lunwerg Editores
Social Practice
Notes from Humanity
2024 — Ongoing
Notes from Humanity
A global handwritten research project collecting responses to a single question: What does it mean to preserve your humanity in the Digital Age? Activated at TED, Katapult Future Fest, and the London Design Biennale. Ongoing.
2,000+ cards · 70+ countries
CRAFT
XOC
Ritual Instrument

XOC

Handcrafted oracular instrument based on the Mayan Tzolk’in calendar. Edition of 13.

Monopoly
Game Design

Customopoly

Custom-made Monopoly. Play a person’s life. One of a kind.

About

An early career in street photography — black and white film. Currently, the work examines what happens when the screen begins to replace the natural world. One-of-a-kind games and objects made as handcrafted art pieces.

2012Mexique: La Révélation d'Une Terre, Galerie Hélène Detaille, Marseille
2011Revealing Mexico, Robert Mann Gallery, New York
2010Revealing Mexico, Rockefeller Center, New York
2008Xibalba, Rejas de Chapultepec, Mexico City
Represented by Robert Mann Gallery, New York
PUBLICATIONS
A Land Between Worlds
A Land Between Worlds
At Their Home
At Their Home
Revealing Mexico
Revealing Mexico
studio@johnmackstudio.com Acquire work — Robert Mann Gallery